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Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories: PB 154-2004

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories

Maker(s)

Author: Ritchie, Ward
Designer: Ritchie, Ward
Publisher: Dawson's Book Shop
Printer: Premier Printing Corporation

Categories

Description

By Ward Ritchie

Contents, For Ward a foreword / by Lawrence Clark Powell -- A bookman's Los Angeles in the 1930s -- Jake Zeitlin, when he was joyous young -- Paul Landacre, artist and wood engraver -- Merle Armitage, his many loves and varied lives -- Robinson Jeffers, recollections of the poet -- Jane Grabhorn, the roguish printer of the Jumbo Press -- Paris adventure with François-Louis Schmied -- John Cage, the maniac of music -- St. John Hornby and the Ashendene Press -- A requiem for Lawrence Clark Powell -- Virginia City and the genesis of a cookbook.

Revisions of articles previously published.
189 p ; 25 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Los Angeles

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1989

Note

"Five hundred copies, designed by Ward Ritchie, were printed by the Premier Printing Corporation for Dawson's Book Shop"--Colophon. Inscription: For John [Dreyfus] from his ever admiring friend. Ward Ritchie. Christmas 1989. Quarter bound in black cloth, gold stamped, with patterned paper sides.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 154-2004
Primary reference Number: 118575
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 26 September 2014 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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